On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 15:51:31 GMT, "west"
wrote:



A suburban lot is a modest sized lot. Ideally I would have only 2 ant. 1 for
HF & one for 2m/220/440. although I see that there are all in ones available
but that would make the HF part, vertically polarized. I can forget 160m. I
know from days of old the QRN was almost intolerable at times with a
vertical. Thanks, Ralph for the post. BTW: I am only interested in
omni-directional at this time.

west

Depending on the size of your lot, a dipole for 80 or 40 is pretty
easy. I you make it an inverted V, that will give it a more
omnidirecitonal pattern, if that is what you want.

bob
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